10.06.2017

Electric manufacturer CASIO will release an interesting compact digital camera in Asia at the end of this month. It is certainly "compact".

They added a new lineup TR-M11 to the digital camera series TR mini for selfie, which is developing mainly in ASEAN. It is a clamshell design, palm size, and colorful, so looks like a cosmetic compact. It has a lens on the top cover, and the 8 LEDs surrounds it. Because of taking a light from the front of the face and taking selfie makes the skin look bright and beautiful. Besides that, LEDs provide various selfie functions to users in collaboration with Casio's image processing technology. Make skin look brighter and fresh, sculpted look to facial features, and slimming...they look more natural and effective than the image effects of camera applications or Purikura(Photo booth).

The camera automatically powers on when the lid is opened and the bottom is the operation screen. The shape of photos is square, and posting to social media such as Instagram is supposed. In addition, users can automatically transfer photos to own smartphones using the EXILIM Connect application linked with the camera.

Power Source is rechargeable lithium ion battery, it can shoot 225 times with one charge, and users can shoot continuously for 4h 50min for still images and 1h 20min for movie. The color variations are Green, Pink, White, Violet, Vivid pink, the size is H82.6 × W77.0 × D26.6mm and weght is 139g (including memory card). Unfortunately, it is undecided whether to be released in Japan.

10.03.2017

If you know this robot, you love Japanese huge robot anime. Bandai announced that the mascot robot Haro that appears in the robot anime Gundam will be commercialized as a communication robot and released in 2018.

The prototype has already been exhibited at CEATEC JAPAN 2017 and became a topic.
The theme of this is "if Haro exists in the present age". This is an interactive communication robot with AI with abundant knowledge about Gundam and also has voice recognition function. It responds to users' questions and Gundam keywords and responds optimally from the database, and can also give the users questions for the Gundam quizzes. It also has a wireless LAN function and Bluetooth function so that users can use this as a speaker and use the alarm function in link with smartphones.
The eyes and mouth of this shines with LEDs, sway forward, backward, left, right, and face the people who is talking. That is exactly a charming communication robot. IBM Japan has developed conversation AI, and VAIO is cooperating with Haro's organization, circuit design and production. The size is 190mm in diameter and works with built-in rechargeable batteries. Weight is undecided.